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numbers in

in questions.

Even

in a population

like that of Londow, it would be rashness to determine that a certain arumber of casualties,

for example, of a given

kind

cocre.

· peculiar to

"the pursuits" and habits of the people, because

a fixed relative number of them to the ___

population

wvere

computed.

in en-

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faithful statistical. record of such events

having now

been taken for

A

a series of years,

it can be predicted, as an undeniable peculiarity of that population, that it is lable to a certain number of defined. casualties. An isolated, statistical fact is like a stone becon ready for the builder -_- `it has no obviously defined purpose until it occupies it's place

i

the

superstructure

it is destined for. Accumulated and well collated statistics faithfully reveal the social, the political and sanatory condition of a people. No statistical records are

absolutely correct in numbers, yet they are always the

nearest possible approximation to truth;

he who has

can

have no

or the wide

war u

mver

reflected

the subject

conception of their vast utility,

range of their influence . They

us from

concealed dangers, and

suggest remedies for evils that have worked their ills in secret. They uproot

enoncons conceptions of the mind, that

guide

us to destruction, and

walk

us to wrakk

they enable

through life in the brand- daylight of truth. The Registrar General,

" instructed by the information in his office,

has been able to point an unerring

to the sources

unerring hand

of the late pestilence in

Cogland, by which

Britain mou.

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have lost in all

lives than we have lost in

battle since the days of Martborough, and he is as certain of the power of eradicating and preventing this scourge, by purifying, the sewers and asspools, as that the disease hydrophobia has, by police